The Rails™ 3 Way, Second Edition

Book Description

The Ruby on Rails Application Development Bible

Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the
development process, enabling professional developers to focus on
what matters most: delivering business value via clean and
maintainable code. This book is the only comprehensive,
authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with
Rails 3. Pioneering Rails expert Obie Fernandez and a team of
leading experts illuminate the entire Rails 3 API, along with the
idioms, design approaches, and libraries that make developing
applications with Rails so powerful. Drawing on their unsurpassed
experience and track record, they address the real challenges
development teams face, showing how to use Rails 3 to maximize your
productivity.

Using plentiful detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers
Rails 3 key capabilities and subsystems, making this book a
reference that you will refer to again and again. He presents
advanced Rails programming techniques that have been proven
effective in day-to-day usage on dozens of production Rails systems
and offers important insights into behavior-driven development and
production considerations such as scalability. Dive deep into the
Rails 3 codebase together, discovering why Rails is designed the
way it is— and how to make it do what you want it to
do.